LivestockThe project will develop multiplex tests that detect several swine viruses at once, set up a national proficiency programme so veterinary labs test to one standard, and build a secure national database of disease and virus activity, with the Canadian Pork Council as partner.
Australian platform IIF, which lets ordinary people put money into a farmer’s cows, beehives or acres of canola and share the season’s return, is expanding across Canada after a funding round joined by its first Canadian investor, Verdex Capital.
A round-up of important news from around the world on 15 July 2024, from Pakistan and the United States to Nepal, Canada and Kuwait.
Former Nova Scotia police officer James Blackwood, the self-styled 'raccoon whisperer', has fed at least 25 raccoons every night for two decades.
